Hermann Hesse

Este libro es una exploración profunda de la iluminación espiritual y el autodescubrimiento. La novela se centra en Siddhartha, un joven brahmán que se embarca en una búsqueda, en la India antigua, para entender el significado de la vida más allá de las enseñanzas religiosas tradicionales, las cuales no satisfacían su necesidad de comprender las verdades más profundas. En el camino, Siddhartha se cruza con varios mentores espirituales, como...

Hermann Hesses Suche nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Peter Camenzind wird in einem Dorf in den Schweizer Bergen geboren. Er liebt das Bergsteigen und die Beobachtung der Natur. Doch er möchte ein Mann des Verstandes werden und zieht dafür in die große Stadt, wo er als sich als Schriftsteller verdingt. Doch machen ihn das weltmännischen Dasein und die gebildeten Kreise, in denen er nun verkehrt, wirklich glücklich? Wieweit muss man reisen und wie viel...

"The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller-better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes a man divided-lost in a surreal underground world of pleasure and set...

This first major novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Hermann Hesse incorporates a theme he returned to again and again in most of his works: the fundamental duality of existence. The youthful protagonist, Emil Sinclair, however, his older friend, Max Demian, manages to both clarify and complicate Sinclair's confusion about life's conflicting values. Recounted in engaging prose, rich in sympathy and imagination, this brilliant exploration of the polarities...

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume-filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons-that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own,...